Journey to Recovery from Childhood Abuse

Alternative Healing: Colors

In my blog entry yesterday, I highlighted Sabrina Mesko’s book, Healing Mudras: Yoga for Your Hands. The book contains basic information about alternative healing methods in addition to healing mudras. I was fascinated by a section on healing colors. The colors apparently align with the colors of the Chakras, which I admit that I know very little about. Nevertheless, I have noticed that I am sometimes drawn to one color more than another for different situations, and this could explain why.

For example, I prefer to wear red if I need to be bold, such as at a job interview or when I am walking into a confrontational situation. According to this book, the color red positively affects a person’s vitality, grounds you, and connects you to the earth. I probably need to feel grounded when walking into a confrontational situation due to my tendency to dissociate, so it makes sense that I would be drawn to the color red.

Here are the descriptions of each color from page 25 of the book:

Color

Description

Red

Vitality; grounding; connection to the earth

Orange

Empower sexuality, creativity, and relationships

Green

Heal your heart and feel loved

Blue

Calming; helps you see and speak the truth

Indigo

Enhance intuition and sixth sense

Violet

Centering and calming; help connect with universal healing powers

Black

Help communicate as a leader

White

Feel cleansed and pure; help clear negative feelings and depression

According to the book, you can visualize these colors to help achieve the different goals, or you can wear those colors to help. You can even surround yourself with a particular color if you want to work on a particular area.

Has anyone ever used healing colors in your healing journey? Was it helpful? I am fascinated with trying to use some of these strategies to help me when I am struggling.

Color has always been a vital part of my life, perhaps in part because I have synesthesia. I “see” color when I listen to music, and I associate color with letters, numbers, days of the week, months of the year, and even people have their associated colors, which I “see” whenever I think of them. (I suspect this may be where the concept of auras came from, actually.) Color has the ability to calm me, to energize me, to inspire me, and to comfort me. I also associate color with emotions–each emotion has its own unique color. Some people with synesthesia literally see the colors, whereas mine is a milder form, where I visualize the colors in my mind, but it’s still a very powerful thing.

I’ve never connected the idea of colors affecting you in different ways, like your chart shows, but it makes sense. I’ve been trying to heal for years now, and I surround myself with greens and purples.

Synesthesia is a somewhat rare condition. Basically, it’s a cross-wiring of the senses, so that you “see” or “taste” what you should merely “hear”, for example. It’s a fascinating disorder, and worthy of study if you’re interested in it. I had no idea it wasn’t normal until I read a magazine article about it a few years ago.

Absolutely, focusing on color helps me to ground myself. Blue and green are my favorites, and I also feel very comfortable with violet and indigo. Orange scares me, which is not surprising giving the sexual abuse I’m working through.

This is very interesting. Last session the therapist and I met someone from the inside world. She loves colours so much. Her favourite colours are green and orange. Whereas my favourite colour is black. Amazing what these colours stand for.
We have decided to use the colouring pens more often now.